Q Pootle 5

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Q Pootle 5
Genre Children's
Animated
Science fiction
Created by Nick Butterworth
Ben Butterworth
Written byNick Butterworth
Ben Butterworth
Lee Pressman
Dave Ingham
Darren Jones
Laura Beaumont
Paul Larson
Directed byAdam Shaw
Voices of Ed Gaughan
Joanna Page
Steve Kynman
Richard Ridings
Ella Kenion
ComposerDavid Schweitzer
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes52
Production
Executive producersNick Butterworth
Annette Butterworth
Producers Ben Butterworth
Margo Marchant
EditorJudith Allen
Running time11 min
Production companiesSnapper Productions
Blue Zoo
Original release
Network CBeebies

Q Pootle 5 is a 2013 animated television series based on the books Q Pootle 5 and Q Pootle 5 in Space by author Nick Butterworth. It revolves around the title character Q Pootle 5 and his friends, and is set on and around the fictional planet Oki Doki.

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Development

Author and executive producer Nick Butterworth chose Q Pootle 5 from amongst his other children's books as the character to develop into an animated series because, as an alien, he would not be culturally tied to any one location. [1] He developed the series with his son Ben, who suggested they form their own production company. [2] Together with Nick's wife Annette they added additional characters and locations to those already seen in the books, [1] before producing a pilot clip with animation studio Blue-Zoo from which a series was commissioned.

Music is an important element of Q Pootle 5. Producer Ben Butterworth says ″When we started to consider the music for the programme we didn’t want music to be just an accompaniment to the story, we wanted people’s experience to be enhanced by the music. The score had to be integral to the storytelling – creating atmosphere, adding nuance and subtlety, underpinning the emotional content of a story, driving the action of a scene, or making us laugh.″ [3]

Characters

Main characters

Additional characters

Episodes

There are 52 episodes of the Q Pootle 5 series. Each episode has a running time of approximately 11 minutes. Additionally, there is one 26-minute long Christmas special episode called Pootle All The Way. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Q Pootle 5: From Book to TV Series". Skwigly . 29 July 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. Nick Butterworth (26 July 2013). "BBC Blogs – CBeebies Grown-ups – Q Pootle 5 lands on CBeebies". CBeebies Grown-ups. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  3. Ben Butterworth (20 September 2013). "BBC Blogs – CBeebies Grown-ups – Q Pootle 5: Making Music on Okidoki". CBeebies Grown-ups. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  4. "Q Pootle 5: Pootle All the Way!". IMDb . 17 November 2014.